Annual  Rotary Club Art Show
The Fleurieu Birdwatchers
 

Visitors can now undertake the complete or a shortened version of a Historic Walking Tour of Goolwa, recently launched by Major Kym Hughes. The complete walk will take about one and a half hours and starts from Signal Point where the tour guide is available. A map and sketches of some of the historic buildings are provided and there are a number of interpretive panels around the walk giving additional information.
Town and Country Computers in Strathalbyn

Mickey Morris Business Services are at Victor Harbor

Hot Spur Aussie Leather Goods - Hats, belts and dog collars
 
 

The Regional Tourist Award  were recently announced. These awards were chosen from the organisations that were self-nominated and were required to be members of the organisation. There are many top class services in the region that were not eligible for judging. Congratulations to:
 
 

Categories	Winners
Hosted Bed and Breakfast	Hamilton House - Strathalbyn
Self-Catering B and B	Aunt Amandas Cottage - Kangarilla
Caravan Park	Port Elliot
Tour Operator	Signal Point - Goolwa
Visitor Information Centre	McLaren Vale FVC

 

Encouragement Certs	Winners
Motels	P S Murray River Queen - Goolwa
Self-Catering B and B	Goolwa Getaways
Guest House	Avalon - Victor Harbor
Caravan Park	Beachside - Normanville
Tour Operator	Coorong Experience - Goolwa
Special Event	Willunga Quarry Market

MARKETS - A new page giving venues times and dates for art, craft and produce markets around the Fleurieu and Hills has been added to FOW

ANIMAL BOARDING - Another new page on FOW may be useful to visitors and locals alike. We have no rating for those listed as yet

SPIRITUAL - Information on spiritual matters such as  church meeting, meditation groups and Bahai can be now accessed on FOW.

The long established Fleurieu LETS Trading System have now established a website. Email Beverley

NEW - Community Directory

You may notice the new button at the top of many of the pages. It  links to a set of new pages being developed for and about local communities  in each region. This is long term projects, but keep a look out for the additions. We'll keep you posted. We are designing a form for you to make submissions.


Beach Woods ECO Tourist Park

Strathalbyn Annual Collectors, Hobbies and Antique Fair - Weekend 14-15 Aug 2000 - Proceeds to community groups. 

FOW are proud to accept the award, presented October 1998 for the valuable contribution in making the WWW a better place to visit. Many thanks to the Judging Panel of the South Australian Superb Websites Ring.

  "We are really impressed with your site. It is well presented and really 
well thought out. You provide a lot of really great information.We would like you to accept our Award as  top site of our top five sites. We hope you are happy to display it on your site." 

Kath Hobson Contributing Editor - Australia & the Pacific

The enormous popularity and success of  Fleurieu On Web means the authors, Fleurieu Communications, are considering establishing a new stream as they originally planned. This new branch will be for community information and easier access for community organisations on the Fleurieu Peninsula. 
 

SA Net Awards - More Congratulations to SA

Two of South Australia's outstanding web sites have won the 
98 Financial Review & Telstra Australian Internet Awards as the best site in their relevant category. 

• Wine of Australia a second time winner in the Industry Sector category 
• Southern Redbacks in the Sports category have done South Australia proud. Congratulations. 

Lake Breeze Wines of Langhorne Creek  have been awarded three trophies at the  Adelaide Wine Show. The awards were won by the Lake Breeze 1996 Winemaker's Selection Shiraz, in what is considered to be the toughest wine show in Australia. They were:

Cork & Seals Trophy - best varietal dry red table wine Shiraz.
Wine Industry Journal Trophy - best dry red table wine, any variety.
Wine Press Club Trophy - best dry red table wine in show

 McLaren Vale Successes in Melbourne !

Rosemount Estate's 1995 Balmoral Syrah triumphed over more than 6000 wines from Australia and New Zealand to win the Wine of the Year Award

d'Arendburg's Chester Osborn is named

inaugural Winemaker of the Year.
Nick Haselgrove , chief winemaker at Haselgrove Wines, was runner up.

Wild Rose Cottages Miniature Village   is now officially classified  as WORLD CLASS. Paul Nicholas has  been recognised by the International Guild of Miniature Artisans as an artisan in their ranks. 

Another new addition to FOW is a guide to dining in the region
 

ABS reports Net Access from homes is rising (Sept 98)
More than one million Australian households access the Internet from home, according to a trend identified in a recent report by the Australian Bureau of Statistics.Internet access by households increased by 14% between Feb and May this year when 971,000 households has access to the Internet. The bulk of the increase occurred in homes who already had computers.

However, Australia's largest Internet access company Ozemail reports the increase in dial-up subscriptions by home users is being quickly surpassed by permanenetly connected business customers. Ozemail has 203,000 subscribers followed by Telstra's Big Pond service with 200,000.

Work was the most frequent point of access for adults, over 18,  at 1.5 million followed by home access at 1.4 million. Other places such as schools, universities and Internet cafes accounted for a total of 1.9 million persons.

Goolwa Beach board walk officially opened by Mayor. The 180 metre board walk is 27 metres above sea level at its highest point, giving what has been claimed to be the best view on the coast. It's good to see there is access for wheelchairs. 



The Tour Down Under will be held in South Australia in January   Sanctioned by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI), cycling's 
governing body, the Tour Down Under was an entirely new calibre of road racing for Australia. 
           For the second time in Australia, complete teams of international professional riders and elite national teams battle it out alongside our home grown stars, like Stuart O’Grady, Henk Vogels and Jay Sweet, for the right to wear the ‘Leader's Jersey.’ 

Since SAFleur On Web announced recently that their Web Site is available for sponsorship they have been overwhelmed by the interest from businesses and community groups. 

The cars in the Variety Club Bash arrived on Saturday  in Victor Harbor . The order of the day was fun and frivolity with the cars covered iin layers of mud and dust and the drivers dressed in some of the most unique and outrageous costumes you could imagine. They had travelled from Adelaide to Victor Harbor via Alice Springs to a civic reception and banquet. This year's Bash saw the total of monies raised go over the $7.5 million mark. All money goes to towards assisting sick, disabled and otherwise disadvantaged children of South Australia. 

The sun shone as the Willunga Almond Blosssom Festival Parade headed down the High Street on Sunday morning followed by live entertainment throughout the day at the Willunga Oval. Morning and afternoon teas were served throughout the week at the Festival Hall and the bus tours of the district proved to be very popular. 

The Great Australian Bite has seen the largest number of whales in attendance since whaling ceased. Corrospondingly the Fleurieu's Encounter Coast is having the best whale watching season ever, with crowds observing the Southern Right's  enormous spouts of water followed by their huge tails flipping out of the sea most with newly born in attendance. A warning signal was sent out to all water users when a surfer was knocked from his board at Middleton Point when he was shunted several times by a mother whale.